Will this be required to save the Gazette?
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Will this be required to save the Gazette?
"Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off," she wrote in her parting column on April 9.
Brooks said this would help rescue the industry from a "death spiral" and left the government unaccountable to the journalists who must keep it honest. " can't imagine anything more dangerous than a society in which the news industry has more or less collapsed," she wrote.
But critics say her proposal would spell an end to the independent media and make journalists reliant lapdogs.
"The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy," said L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group.
Bozell said licensing journalists would violate American traditions and was a form of "intellectual prostitution."
"Since when did our Founding Fathers envision that ... you could exercise your right to freedom of speech provided you had a license from the federal government? This is the kind of stuff you have revolutions about," he told FOXNews.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/obama-appointee-suggests-radical-plan-newspaper-bailout/
SamCogar- Number of posts : 6238
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Re: Will this be required to save the Gazette?
Holy cow! Here's something more dangerous.......a media totally controlled by the government.
Re: Will this be required to save the Gazette?
The only good thing about the Gazette is their sports department. Other then that, it's a rag that's fit for a doggy training station and little else.
Aaron- Number of posts : 9841
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Re: Will this be required to save the Gazette?
Aaron wrote:The only good thing about the Gazette is their sports department. Other then that, it's a rag that's fit for a doggy training station and little else.
How true
Cato- Number of posts : 2010
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